To meditate an injury is to commit one.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

One must steer, not talk.