At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.