We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.