The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.