Better late than never.

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.