The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.