Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.