The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

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.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.