This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.