I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

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