It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.