Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.