The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.