No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.