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.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

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

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.