The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

History is clarified experience.

Light is the symbol of truth.