There is no beginning too small.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.