"Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.”

“From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.”

“Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.”

“As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.”

“Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.”

“Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.”

“ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”

“The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.”

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”