Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.