Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.