The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.