We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.