Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

I like man, but not men.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.