"If then I am addressing one of that numerous class, who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle wi…"

"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."

"A Faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, i…"

"A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity."

"The only way of setting the Will free is to deliver it from wilfulness."

"Neither in science itself, nor in that lower class of the arts which arise out of its practical application, has any …"

"A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely."

"The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow."

"Nothing is further from Earth than Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth."

"For the safeguard of your country, if you be called to the wars, grutch [complain] not nor groan at it. Go with good …"