With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.