We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.