“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century”

“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”

“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves”

“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”

“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”

“The truest end of life, is to know the life that never ends”