Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.