The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.