I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.