The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.