A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.