Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.