Fear is the parent of cruelty.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

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.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.