A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.