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

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.