The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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