A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.