If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.