Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.