When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.