The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.