Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.