All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.