The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.