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?

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

The will of man is his happiness.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.