A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.