The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.