Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

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

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.