I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.