O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.