Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.