God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.