Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.