"The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."

"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."