Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.