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

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

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

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.