Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
We are all human, and all do wrong.