Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.