Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

We read often with as much talent as we write.