The First Sin In Our Universe Was

Affectation Is The Product Of Falsehood.

The Tragedy Of Life Is Not So Much What Men Suffer, But Rather What They Miss.

When We Can Drain The Ocean Into Mill-ponds, And Bottle Up The Force Of Gravity, To Be Sold By Retail, In Gas Jars; Then May We Hope To Comprehend The Infinitudes Of Man's Soul Under Formulas Of Profit And Loss; And Rule Over This Too, As Over A Patent Engine, By Checks, And Valves, And Balances.

A Well-written Life Is Almost As Rare As A Well-spent One.

Insurrection, Never So Necessary, Is A Most Sad Necessity; And Governors Who Wait For That To Instruct Them Are Surely Getting Into The Fatalest Course.