It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.