The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.