I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.