As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Things don't change. We change.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.