Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.