The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Truthfulness is godliness.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.