Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.