Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.