The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.