Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.