Consult duty not events.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.