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

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.