The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.