How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

We cannot learn men from books.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.