A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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?

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.