Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

Go forward with joyful confidence.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?