Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.