A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Men hate more steadily than they love.