My life is not an apology, but a life.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.