Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.