Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.