True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.