She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.