Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.