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.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.