God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.