History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

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

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

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

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.