There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.