On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.