Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.