Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

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

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

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

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.