A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.