It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.