Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.