A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.