And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.