War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.