What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.