It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.