Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?