It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.