Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.