Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.