It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.