The Judgment Of Posterity Is Truer, Because

Every Man Can Tell How Many Goats Or Sheep He Possesses, But Not How Many Friends.

Let Us Assume That Entertainment Is The Sole End Of Reading; Even So I Think You Would Hold That No Mental Employment Is So Broadening To The Sympathies Or So Enlightening To The Understanding. Other Pursuits Belong Not To All Times, All Ages, All Conditions; But This Gives Stimulus To Our Youth And Diversion To Our Old Age; This Adds A Charm To Success, And Offers A Haven Of Consolation To Failure. Through The Night-watches, On All Our Journeyings, And In Our Hours Of Ease, It Is Our Unfailing Companion.

Poor Is The Nation That Has No Heroes, But Poorer Still Is The Nation That Having Heroes, Fails To Remember And Honor Them.

To Be Ignorant Of The Past Is To Be Forever A Child.

I Hear Socrates Saying That The Best Seasoning For Food Is Hunger; For Drink, Thirst.