Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.