God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

It's not enough to be busy.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.