If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.