The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.