Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.