In what we really understand, we reason but little.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

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.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.