And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.