This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.