There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

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

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

The soul has more diseases than the body.