For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.