The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.