We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

The world is his who has money to go over it.