Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.