Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.