Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.