Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.