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

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

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

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.