It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Thrift is of great revenue.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.