Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.