The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.