We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.