To See The World Is To Judge

One Should Choose For A Wife Only Such A Woman As He Would Choose For A Friend, Were She A Man.

Genius Begins Great Works; Labor Alone Finishes Them.

The Sound Of The Drum Drives Out Thought; For That Very Reason It Is The Most Military Of Instruments.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

Remorse Is The Punishment Of Crime; Repentance, Its Expiation. The Former Appertains To A Tormented Conscience; The Latter To A Soul Changed For The Better.