The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?