Friends are proved by adversity.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.