A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.