A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!