Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Religion is civilization, the highest.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.