It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

Things don't change. We change.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.