Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!