We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

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

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

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

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