Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.