Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.

The first requisite for immortality is death.