A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.