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.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing