America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.
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.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.