"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."

"I spend a lot of time reading."

"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."