If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.