Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.