The language of the street is always strong.

a good reader makes a good book

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.