Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.