As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.