The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.