Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Morality is the object of government.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.