“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”

“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”

“One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”

“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”

“Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.”

“It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.”

“There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.”