Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.