Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
There is no right government except good government.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.