Virtue alone has majesty in death.

"The only sign of "superiority" I acknowledge in Man is goodness."

He who meditates into the mysteries of the Holy Quran is sagacious in true sense.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

This ability... to organize, to breathe into others that fire of enthusiasm, that quality of judgment, that spirit of progress, has long been considered by thinking men of commerce as the final and greatest of all qualities, the test of supreme commercial genius.

To be self-controlled is the greatest excellence.

All savages seem to us alike as the trees of the distant forest. Here and there one unites in his own person, all the excellencies, and becomes the favourable representative of the whole, the image of savage greatness, the one grand character in which all others are lost to history or observation. Cornstalk possessed all the elements of savage greatness, oratory, statesmanship and heroism, with beauty of person and strength of frame. In appearance he was majestic, in manners easy and winning. Of his oratory, Colonel Benjamin Wilson, Senr., an officer in Dunmore's army, in 1774, having heard the grand speech to Dunmore in Camp Charlotte, says — "I have heard the first orators in Virginia, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, but never have I heard one whose powers of delivery surpassed those of Cornstalk on that occasion." Of his statesmanship and bravery there is ample evidence both in the fact that he was chosen head of the Confederacy, and in the manner he conducted the war of 1774, and particularly by his directions of the battle at Point Pleasant.

With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.

The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

... he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.