A Very Great Part Of

Adversity Is A Severe Instructor, Set Over Us By One Who Knows Us Better Than We Do Ourselves.

A Nation Without Means Of Reform Is Without Means Of Survival.

Unsociable Humors Are Contracted In Solitude, Which Will, In The End, Not Fail Of Corrupting The Understanding As Well As The Manners, And Of Utterly Disqualifying A Man For The Satisfactions And Duties Of Life. Men Must Be Taken As They Are, And We Neither Make Them Or Ourselves Better By Flying From Or Quarreling With Them.

The Most Important Of All Revolutions, A Revolution In Sentiments, Manners And Moral Opinions.

Nothing So Effectually Deadens The Taste Of The Sublime As That Which Is Light And Radiant.