History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.