It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

The king is the man who can.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Thought will not work except in silence.