In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?