A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

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

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?