Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.