Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Consult duty not events.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.