Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

There is always safety in valor.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.