Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
Why is youth so short and age so long?
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.