For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.