The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.