There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.