The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
