The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.