Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.