There is properly no history, only biography.
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.