There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.