Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.