It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.