The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.