The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.