When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.