If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.