Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?