By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!