Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.