A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.