The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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