Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.