It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.