Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.