God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

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