There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

There is not a moment without some duty.

No sober person dances.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.