We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

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

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.