Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.