I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The better part of valour is discretion.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme, to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

We see things not as they are but as we are.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

A hard man is good to find.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.