The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

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

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.