The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.