It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.