Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.