Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.