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

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

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!