There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

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.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

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

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

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.