To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.