Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.