What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.