There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.