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.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence

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

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped