The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.