One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Coal is a portable climate.