In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

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

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!