Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.