It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.