If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

It's not enough to be busy.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.