Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

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.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.