A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.