Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.