There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?