I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!