Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.