What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.