Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
Knowledge is power as well as fame.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
A book is the only immortality.
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.