The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?