There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Thought will not work except in silence.