A great mind must be androgynous.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!