The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Man cannot choose his duties.
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.