Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

And in today already walks tomorrow.