I think no virtue goes with size.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.