The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

Revolutions go not backward.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.