People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required