As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.