Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Calmness is always godlike.