My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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.