Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.