Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.