The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.