Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

The end of man is action.