Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.