One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.