Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.