A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.