"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"Remember that every drop that falls, bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility."

"A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see o…"

"To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of thos…"

"Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God b…"

"The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that…"

"Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man i…"

"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."

"Science is the systematic classification of experience."