Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
Never cut what you can untie.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.