If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.