The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.