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!

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

Coal is a portable climate.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

No society can ever be so large as one man.