Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.