Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.