Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.