Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.