Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Fame is bought by happiness.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

The fearless make their own way.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.