The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!