“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is no gambling like politics.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We moralize among ruins.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature,

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.