No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.