The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
Morality is the object of government.
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.