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

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Power and speed be hands and feet.