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

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.