Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The mills of God grind slowly.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.