Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries”

The finger of the atheists own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.