Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.