There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.