Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.