These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.