The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

A man is a god in ruins.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.