He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

Idleness induces caprice.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.