The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

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.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.