With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.