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

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

As for health, consider yourself well.