God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

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

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

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