While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.