We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.