Reflection makes men cowards.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!