There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

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

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.