O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.