Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Daniel's desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of himself as the act of drawing. His body of work is his life, it is his continuity. The drawings show outwardly that inner place where he is still alive, a thread to connect him with the world.

The dream is the exclusive property of the dreamer.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.