No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.