Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.