Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

The soul circumscribes all things.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.