It needs courage to be afraid.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.