Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.