Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.