"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." — Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.