Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

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

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

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

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.