We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.