To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.