There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life, as the simple truth.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.