We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.