Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.