Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.