Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.