The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.