Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.