You cannot hide the soul.
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Failure is the true test of greatness
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
Great towers take time to construct.
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.