Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.