If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

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 are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.