The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach