The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.