A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.