Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

I have great faith in a seed.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.