Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.