Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
William MatthewsThe same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
William MatthewsGod has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
William MatthewsThe easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
William MatthewsWhat are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.
William Matthews