It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.