Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.