Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.