When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

The king is the man who can.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

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.

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.