Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.