Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

Find the journey's end in every step.