The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Great towers take time to construct.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.