The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.