Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.