Few maxims are true in every respect.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.