There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Politics make strange bedfellows.