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.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.