Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.