Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Time has only a relative existence.

Laughter means sympathy.