Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.