Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

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.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.