Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.