If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.