Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

The victory's in believing.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.