The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.