Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

We change whether we like it or not.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.