A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.