There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.