Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.