Absolute Power Demoralizes.

History Provides Neither Compensation For Suffering Nor Penalties For Wrong.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

Every Error Pronounces Judgment On Itself When It Attempts To Apply Its Rules To The Standard Of Truth.

It Is They [men Of Science] Who Hold The Secret Of The Mysterious Property Of The Mind By Which Error Ministers To Truth, And Truth Slowly But Irrevocably Prevails. Theirs Is The Logic Of Discovery, The Demonstration Of The Advance Of Knowledge And The Development Of Ideas, Which As The Earthly Wants And Passions Of Men Remain Almost Unchanged, Are The Charter Of Progress, And The Vital Spark In History.

I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.