In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.