A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.