Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.