"Advice is least heeded when most needed."

"If you look back, you'll soon be going that way."

"Character is what you are in the dark."

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way."

"Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown."

"He that lives on hope will die fasting."

"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."

"I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."