In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.