No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.