The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.