To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today