Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.