Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

I am a majority of one.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.