Real action is in silent moments.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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