History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.