Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.