A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.