Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Biography is the only true history.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.