We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Even trees do not die without a groan.