Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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.