The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.