That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.