You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.