One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.