What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!