The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.