By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.

When you develop your gift, you will be well known

It is lack of vision and passion on the part of his redeemed children that keeps the nations bound in darkness

You don't have to prove anything to anyone.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.