All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

The never-ending task of self improvement.