We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

All history is biography.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.