Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

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.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

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

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.