Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

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

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

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.