[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.