We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

All the world loves a lover.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.