Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.