Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.