Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.