Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.