The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

The more we do, the more we can do.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.