There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.