A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.