People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.