It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.