Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.