Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.