What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.