To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.