A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.