The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.
We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.