Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.