The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Invention breeds invention.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.