We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.