Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.