The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.