Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

New occasions teach new duties.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.