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

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.