Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.