What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

When there is no vision, people perish.