It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
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.