Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.