Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

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.

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.