Always do what you are afraid to do.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.