The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.