No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Virtue is no empty echo.

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.