The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.