A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The devil has his elect.

O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Rest is for the dead.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.