A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.