My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.