"Of the splendid constellation of great names... we admire the living and revere dead far too warmly and too deeply to…"

"Time! Time! Time! — we must not impugn the Scripture Chronology, but we must interpret it in accordance with whatever…"

"Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of ha…"

"Not to feel elevated on an occasion like the present, by this noble, this magnificent testimony of approbation of my …"

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

"What God sends is welcome."

"God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives"

"Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive …"

"We must never forget that it is principles, not phenomena, — laws not insulated independent facts, — which are the ob…"

"To ascend to the origin of things and speculate on the creation, is not the business of the natural philosopher. An h…"