What a man sees only in his best moments as truth is truth in all moments.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Truth
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Liberty
A good creed is a gate to the city that hath foundations; a misleading creed may be a road to destruction, or if both misleading and alluring it may become what Shakespeare calls a primrose path to the eternal bonfire.
—Joseph Cook
The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Solitude
Of all my wife’s relations I like myself the best.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Family
Only the home can found a state.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Home
A mystery is something of which we know that it is, though we do not know how it is.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Mystery
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
—Joseph Cook
Topics: Conscience, Reason
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