Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

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

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.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.

There is a transcendent power in example.