Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.