It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.