A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.