Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

All men are children, and of one family.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.