It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
It is tranquil people who accomplish much.
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.