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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.