A man's fate is his own temper.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

With words we govern men.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.