All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

The Library is a wilderness of books.