Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are occasions ... when all consolation is base and it is a duty to despair.

There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.