Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.