Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.