Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.