Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Folly enlarges men’s desires while it lessens their capacities.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.

Flints may be melted – we see it daily – but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

A man’s life is an appendix to his heart.

He that tears away a man’s good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

No man’s religion ever survives his morals.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.