You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.