Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.