"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."

"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous."

"Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones."

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance."

"Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?"

"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself."