Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.