It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

No man was ever great by imitation.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.