Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

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.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.