The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Work makes a callus against grief.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.