It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.