All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.