Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.