The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.