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Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

Although our intellect always feels itself urged towards clearness and certainty, still our mind often feels itself attracted by uncertainty.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

Moreover, the many dead trunks that stand like skeletons, never fail to give to these primeval woods a character of solemnity, absent in those of countries long civilized.

This west coast makes me remember with pleasure the free, unbounded plains of Patagonia; yet, with the true spirit of contradiction, I cannot forget how sublime is the silence of the forest.

Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.