Repetition is the mother of education.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.