The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?