Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

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.

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

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.