My hours are peaceful centuries.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...