Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.