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

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

Delay in justice is injustice.