One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

They know enough who know how to learn.

In the one branch he most needed

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.