A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.