We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.