Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.