[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.