Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.