When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.