For Everything You Gain, You Lose Something.

The Ancestor Of Every Action Is A Thought.

This Time, Like All Times, Is A Very Good One, If We But Know What To Do With It.

To Different Minds, The Same World Is A Hell, And A Heaven.

When The Vain Speaker Has Sat Down, And The People Say 'what A Good Speech,' It Still Takes An Ounce To Balance An Ounce.

Life Is Girt All Round With A Zodiac Of Sciences, The Contributions Of Men Who Have Perished To Add Their Point Of Light To Our Sky. ... These Road-makers On Every Hand Enrich Us. We Must Extend The Area Of Life And Multiply Our Relations. We Are As Much Gainers By Finding A Property In The Old Earth As By Acquiring A New Planet.