There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.