Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.