The surest poison is time.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.