All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.