Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

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

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.