People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.