Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.