Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?