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

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.