The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.