In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

Invention breeds invention.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.