Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.