Eloquence Must Be Grounded On The Plainest

Society Never Advances. It Recedes As Fast On One Side As It Gains On The Other. Society Acquires New Arts, And Loses Old Instincts.

Things Have Their Laws As Well As Men, And Things Refuse To Be Trifled With.

If It Costs Ten Years, And Ten To Recover The General Prosperity, The Destruction Of The South Is Worth So Much.

The History Of Mankind Interests Us Only As It Exhibits A Steady Gain Of Truth And Right, In The Incessant Conflict Which It Records Between The Material And The Moral Nature.

For Everything You Have Missed, You Have Gained Something Else, And For Everything You Gain, You Lose Something Else.