We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.