An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The instinct of the people is right.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.