Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Morality is the object of government.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.