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

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.