We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.