The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

Discouragement is not from God.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

Things don't just happen, people make them happen