We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.