A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.