In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.