Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.