In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

Surely joy is the condition of life.