It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.