Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

I am then never less alone than when alone

Those who can command themselves command others.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.