It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.