There are remedies for all things but death.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.