Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.