Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.