The passions of the young are vices in the old.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.