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.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

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

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.