Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

The story sums him up best to me. He thought of the grand gesture and then did it.

I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion — in

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.

He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts — a few of them — which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures.