Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.