I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.