Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.