Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.