In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.