Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.