Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

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