We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.