He is great who confers the most benefits.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.