We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

We are older by faith than by experience.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.