You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts