What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.