Postpone not your life.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!