A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.