It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.