The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.