The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.