When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.