If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.