In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.