Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.