Laws die, books never.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.