Speech is great, but silence is greater.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

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

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.