The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

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

We are rich only through what we give.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.