The order of things consents to virtue.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.