Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.