Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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.