Man is but the place where I stand.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.