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

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!