Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
