As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Cunning is strength withheld.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.