The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

What we call results are beginnings.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.