When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.