Be thine own privy counsellor.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

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.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.