There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.