We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

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.