Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.