On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.