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.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

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

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

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