Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

The lover of letters loves power too.