Ability without honor has no value.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

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

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.