History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.