Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
On all the peaks lies peace.
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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.