By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.