Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

The grand instructor, time.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.