A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.