And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

We have more than we use.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.