Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.