As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.