A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

The devil has his elect.