The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

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