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

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.