Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.