We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.